By now you know that there is a MySQL Track during next week’s ODTUG
Kaleidoscope in Washington, DC. Ronald Bradford
and I organized the schedule at the last minute (Ronald did a lot
of the work!). It was difficult to fill a schedule with 19
sessions that are either 1 hour or 1.5 hours long, and to do it I
ended up with three presentations.

At each presentation I will be giving away a copy of The MySQL
Administrator’s Bible, so be sure to show up! All MySQL track
sessions are in Maryland C, and all times are Eastern.

Several things to think about in the next 10 days leading up to
Kaleidoscope.

1. The Marriott Wardman Park is out of rooms. If you’re attending
and haven’t reserved a room yet, you may get lucky with a
cancellation, but there are several hotels on the Metro line that should
have openings. The conference and location is very popular, and
while I wish we could accommodate everyone, it’s not going to be
possible. Here’s a good suggestion: when next year’s conference
dates and location are announced, register and reserve your room
as soon as possible (hint – these announcements will be made at
our general session on Monday, June 28 starting at 8:30 AM).

2. The Java Bus is coming! Monday afternoon/evening, June
28, the Java “Code to …

Today I received notice that next week’s Velocity conference is
at maximum capacity. With just under 2 weeks before the start of
ODTUG Kaleidoscope in Washington DC we still have
room for late registrations. There is 4 days of MySQL content,
free events and also a Sunday Symposium that includes talks on
performance and high availability.

Contact any of the MySQL speakers directly and you can receive a
special 50% discount code. This is only for MySQL attendees.

If you live in the DC area and only want the FREE option then
come along and join use on Monday night for a free session and
reception.

Wednesday night of the MySQL track of ODTUG Kaleidoscope will
include an evening with Last Comic Standing comedian, John Heffron. It
should be great way to unwind after day 3 of the conference.
Black vodka anybody.

As I promised in my previous blog posting, I got the opportunity to
ask Ronald Bradford some questions. I hope this serves as
an introduction to Ronald, and that you’ll attend Kaleidoscope to learn more from Ronald in
person.

Ronald Bradford

MR: Would you like to share some background information about
yourself for our ODTUG readers?

RB: “I have worked with various RDBMS technologies for 20+
years. I was first introduced to Ingres at university
and after my Bachelors Degree in 1989. I started my professional
IT career performing Ingres database architecture, system design
as well as software development. I worked solidly with …

With the help of the MySQL community leaders, ODTUG has embraced
the opportunity to add MySQL content to the already jam-packed agenda at
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010, in Washington, DC from
June 27 – July 1.

This track starts on Monday, and will have presentations running
the entire length of the conference. The track is highlighted by
its participation in the Sundown Sessions with the Oracle ACE
Directors. In this session, Sheeri K. Cabral and Ronald Bradford, two of the current three Oracle
MySQL Ace Directors will host a …

Ronald
has done a super job and spent a ton of hours in the past several
weeks coordinating this effort. Work has kept me much busier than normal, but
I have lent some time to the coordination as well. It is a credit
mostly to Ronald that we have been able to plan an entire
19-session conference track, complete with confirming speakers,
in less than a month. (You may notice the schedule does not have
all 19 sessions full, we are just waiting for some more speakers
to confirm details.)

We have secured approval for our final two speakers and now have
a full schedule for the 4 day MySQL track at ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference. The conference is
in Washington DC from Monday June 28th to Thursday July 1st.
Welcome to Josh Sled and Craig Sylvester that will be joining our
existing list of speakers.

This conference will include 19 sessions of dedicated MySQL
content from Monday thru Thursday by well qualified MySQL
community members, as well a forums discussion and reception on
Monday night. You don’t need to be an Oracle developer to get the
benefit of this conference. We will offering a discount code for
MySQL attendees in the upcoming days.

If you are in the DC area, the Monday night forum (known as the
sundown sessions) as well as the reception are
FREE for the MySQL community. This was a great
jesture of the Oracle …

Just a quick blog posting today…ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 is proud
to announce the addition of a FULL
MySQL track for the conference! Starting on Monday, June
28th, and running until the end of the conference on Thursday,
July 1st, the track will host 19 sessions on MySQL. The MySQL
database is the world’s most popular open source database, and is
used by many popular and successful websites.

The track was put together in much the same way that ODTUG added
its highly successful Hyperion and Essbase content to the
conference, starting back in 2008. ODTUG recognized an
opportunity to help out the community by providing room for
content to be presented. Then, we connected with a respected
leader in the MySQL community, one of the first three Oracle ACE Directors representing …

As the program chair for the recently announced MySQL Track at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference
located in Washington DC we are also looking into an associated
free community event for MySQL locals in addition to a dedicated
track for 4 days.

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